Nanite Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 Last week, I bought a new computer, the next day, I bought Half Life 2. One sleep-deprived week later, and it's finished. Guess I can get back to minis now... Unless anyone has recommendations? Mind you, I've bought one video game in the past five years, and my computer was to slow to play it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dargrin Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 Well, I have little time before I am asked to do something these days so I have been only playing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Froggy the Great Posted June 15, 2006 Moderator Share Posted June 15, 2006 I've been playing Nexus War lately. http://www.nexuswar.com Its advantages are: free, web-based, non time-sucking, and great metagaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjb Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 i dare you to try city of heros/villians....it will take much more than a week....more like most of a year or more to reach lvl 50 .....and thats on just one toon....theres so many alts that you can make on both sides.... ...major case of altitous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcobaia Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 There are three games which I love with a passion, Half-life 2, Dawn of War (expansion just makes it even better) and F.E.A.R. DoW is a very fast-paced strategy, set in the Warhammer 40k universe. Despite being GW, it is really incredible. F.E.A.R. reminds me of Half-life 2, mainly in design. It's a light horror game, with incredible AI. It's quite something to see the enemies vault over railings, find you because your shadow was showing and upend a table to use as cover. I could go on for hours... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skavenbabe Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 Just a few off the top of my head. FarCry Thief Oblivion and I've loved all the Splinter Cell games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haldir Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 really the online video game I'm playing now is City of Villians (CoV for short) pretty much the bad guys version of CoH. My main guy is a mastermind, which his main power is he can summon minions/lackeys to aid him, great for me since I solo alot more then group up in MMOs. Anyways I choose the undead power, so I have 3 zombies + a grave knight (he is pretty much equivlant to a scrapper with the sword power in CoH). I'm 19th level with him right now almost to 20, really alot of things in the game happen then (get a cape, get a new costume slot, + alot of other game related things). I've always liked superhero stuff, so this game fits for me. One game I have a subscription to is D&D online: Stormreach, but I'm about to cancel it since I haven't played it in probably a month, I don't know what is about the game, I like my guy + I love Eberron setting, just something about the game I don't like. I will be gettin Neverwinter Nights 2 when it's released later this year thou!!! RM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcobaia Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 CoV is another good one, I picked that up a short while back but haven't really done much with that. I think my highest level person is 6 or 7... I spend more time creating different characters than actually playing the game. So many options, it boggles the mind! I still have a World of Warcraft subscription, I should probably play both of those more often... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRigger Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 Rome: Total War has taken 8 hour chunks from my life, personally. But it's not for everyone. Although running down fleeing infantry with cavalry is very satisfying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadaver Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 I'm playing: City of Heroes/Villians Auto Assault (warning: in it's second month so is still experiencing growing pains, but a fast great game.) Dawn of War Alpha Centauri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dargrin Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 Rome: Total War has taken 8 hour chunks from my life, personally. But it's not for everyone. Although running down fleeing infantry with cavalry is very satisfying. I couldn't agree more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haldir Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 I forgot to mention I also like Guild Wars as well, beautiful game. I guess one of the reason why I didn't mention it before (other then forgettin about it) was it good for spurts of online time, but overall I can't get into like I would say CoV/CoH. I picked up Factions last month, while that is pretty good, I feel like it's the same thing just with a Oreintal flavor to it. One of the best things about it is it's MMORPG but there is no monthly fee for it vs the other MMORPGs that are out there. I have a fire elementalist/mesmer (mess with your mind type) in regular GW & an assassin in GWF. Funny both are female characters ha ha, like I said the game is a gorgeous game to look at, figured why stare at the butt of a guy while playin it, ha ha. (speakin of CoV--hit 20 today & did all of my costume slot/cape mishs, wow those were totally different then CoH's missions) need to install the trial I have Auto Assault, that one looks interesting, so maybe this freebee 2 weeks will spark something for it. heck seen there is a WoW trial as well (10 days), might do that just to get a fix of WoW, since I played that one from the time it was released till last Sept or so. Would be a good way to do it & not have to pay the monthly fee (even if it's just 15 dollar, still 15 can be spent elsewhere) Seen some screenshots of a game coming out called CHROME HOUNDS, looks really interesting. CAV players should check that one out. RM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooseyjoe Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 does CoH/CoV have a monthly fee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanite Posted June 16, 2006 Author Share Posted June 16, 2006 I'm avoiding pay-to-play online games due to me being on dialup (and if I picked up one of those, I'd have to cop for more expensive internet), thought I've had a hard time resiting CoH/CoV. Alpha Centauri Awesomeness digitized. Nothing in Civilization ever matched the fun of dropping a unit of hovertanks from your Space Elevator, right onto the enemy capitol. Rise of Legends looks pretty nifty. Hey, that reminds me, I can play Civ 3 now without waiting four minutes between computer turns! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingwreckage Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Rise of Nations is good stuff and will play via TCP/IP over a slow connection. Dawn of War is great. The expansion is well worth it. UT04 has a LOT of gameplay IF you like quake-style fast twitchy gorefest deathmatch; the mod called "CARBALL" is addiction incarnate if you can get to a LAN or have a fast connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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